
Faculty

- Name
- Elizabeth Leigh Smith
- Title
- Professor of English, Department Chair
B.A., 1991, Rice University
M.A., 1994, University of Houston
Ph.D., 1999, University of Houston
- lsmith@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3385
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 D
Dr. Smith joined the faculty at East Stroudsburg University in 2002 and specializes in medieval and other early British literature.
Teaching Interest
Old and Middle English Literature
Early British Literature
Medieval European (Continental) Literature
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Tolkien
Research Interest
Same as teaching interests
Service
Edited the last two Middle States accreditation self-studies
Chairs the Composition Placement Committee
Serves as Faculty Liaison to ESU Foundation Board
Represents English Department in University Senate
Publications & Presentations
Publications (Last five years):
“Deferred Pleasure: The Text as Substitute.” Article in Textual Pleasure in the Middle
Ages: A Casebook. Ed. Scott Troyan and Robin Birkey. Routledge, forthcoming.
“Doing Yeoman Work: Uses of the Robin Hood Tales in the Undergraduate Survey.” Article
in Robin Hood and the Canon. Ed. Alex Kaufman and Lesley Coote. McFarland, forthcoming.
“‘The Matter That You Read’: Saxo Grammaticus as a Source for Shakespeare and a Resource
for Teachers of Hamlet.” The Year’s Work in Medievalism, 2014.
Peer review of The Inklings and King Arthur. Ed. Sørina Higgins. 2014.
Presentations (Last five years):
“‘I loved no kynnesman I had more than I loved hym’: Killing and Intimacy in Malory."
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
MI, 2019 (accepted).
“The Merry Men of Merry Mount: Robin Hood as Anti-Puritan in the New World.” International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2018.
“Finding Hope in Despair: A Possible Source for Malory’s Boethian Consolation.” International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2017.
“Shared Language, Shared Perspective: Thomas Malory and John Walton’s Boethius.” Texas
Medieval Association (TEMA), Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, October 2015.
“Two Unhappy Knights and Lady Fortune: What Boethius Meant to Malory.” International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2015.
“A Medievalist Teaches Hamlet: The Relevance of Saxo Grammaticus.” Texas Medieval
Association, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, October 2014
“Tolkien Grammaticus: The Influence of the Gesta Danorum on The Hobbit and Lord of
the Rings.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, 2014.

- Name
- Bill Broun
- Title
- Professor of English
B.A., 1989, Miami University of Ohio
M.A., 1993, Miami University of Ohio
M.F.A., 1998, University of Houston
- wbroun@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3540
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 O
Bill Broun helped work his way through college and grad school as a journalist (and Big Lots clerk, waiter, dishwasher, and lawn cutter). As a reporter and editor, he covered everything from the indie band rock scene and air travel industry to murders and natural disasters, working in Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts and London.
His short fiction, which often explores the lives of the urban underclass and “working poor,” has appeared in journals such as the Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Open City.
His debut novel NIGHT OF THE ANIMALS (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016) received critical acclaim in virtually every major US newspaper and in many international publications. It was recently translated into Mandarin Chinese and debuted successfully in China in March 2019.
Teaching Interest
Fiction writing
Digital media writing, particularly journalism
Research Interest
Journalism in emerging nations
Service
UNIVERSITY AND SYSTEM SERVICE
SPIRIT (Strategic Plan Innovation, Renewal, and Implementation Team) group (2016-present):
One of about two dozen members of an ESU “group … created with the mission to help
envision our university's goals for the years leading to 2020.”
Joint Labor-Management Committee (2017-18): Serving with Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education and APSCUF officials on statewide sub-committee tasked with examining
and possibly revising parts of state system/faculty union’s CBA.
One Book, One Campus Committee (2014-present): Selection sub-committee. Collaborating
with other faculty to choose texts and plan for ESU’s One Book series.
Strategic Plan Implementation Task Force (2015-present): As an APSCUF chapter-secretary
appointment, I’m collaborating with an interdepartmental working group tasked with
integrating concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship into strategic plan implementation
efforts.
ESU Representative from Colleges of Arts and Sciences at Stroudfest (2018): Helped
staff busy ESU information table at regional public event.
College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan Committee (2016): Worked with other arts
and sciences faculty to align the college’s own strategic plans with the university’s
new plan.
Distance Education Training Committee (2015-present): Service on university-wide committee
seeking to education instructors on the technology and pedagogy of online education.
Sponsoring Faculty, ESU Annual Research and Scholarly Symposium (2014 and 2015)
Periodic Review Report Workgroup (2011-2012), asked to serve as member of OAIE-organized
group composed of fourteen faculty, staff and administrators tasked with the self-study
process and writing of report for Middle States accreditation. Considered, as one
document puts it, “a key university-wide collaborative effort which is critical to
the university’s future.”
College of Arts and Sciences Annual Report Committee (2010-2012): wrote large section
of annual departmental reports.
Strategic Plan Editor (2010): co-edited plan for Office of Diversity and Institutional
Effectiveness
Arts & Letters Assessment Committee (2008-10), committee member; authored large portion
of assessment report.
University Writing Committee (2008)
Dean’s Arts and Letters Speakers Series Committee (2006)
SCHOLARLY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Editorial Board member, Newspaper Research Journal (2018-19): Recently appointed to
the editorial board of the prestigious international journalism scholarly research
journal. Will be reviewing article submissions.
Reviewer, Pennsylvania Communication Annual (2014-present). Helping to evaluate and
offer feedback on scholarly communication studies articles submitted to regional journal.
Concerned Citizens of Reinhard Field (2018): Created a community organization dedicated
to protecting greenspace and the quality of life of our neighborhood in Saucon Valley.
Have received press coverage.
Hellertown Borough Public Library (July 12, 2016): A free, open-to-anyone “Creative
Writing Workshop” with poet Annmarie Drury at local library, held as a public service
to the community. The event was filled to capacity with adults interested in creative
writing.
WilsonBorough.com (2014-15). Editor-in-chief of local online newspaper conceived and
executed as a service project to help spur media coverage and share journalistic skills
in underserved, economically troubled area of Lehigh Valley. Trained local Wilson-based
Meuser Library board member in how to use system.
Web Co-Editor, Executive Committee Member of the national Association of Educators
in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Newspaper and Online News Division),
2009-2011
One of two co-editors/officers\ who write blog entries and news updates for AEJMC’s
Newspaper Division weblog.
Editor and co-instructor, Pocono Good, 2009-2010
Helped conceive, win funding for, edit, and oversee to publication an inter-departmental
online ESU student-run magazine (a service learning project part of two ESU multimedia
courses) that highlights Monroe County volunteerism. Received significant regional
press coverage.
Website Development, English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU),
Spring Conference, 2010
Devised website for ESU-hosted state conference of Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education English departments.
Instructor and developer, ESU Stellar Start Program, summer 2010
Helped create and teach in new program for high-achieving incoming freshmen operated
by Provost’s Office and Office of Continuing Education & Summer Sessions. Took part
in program committee’s decision-making and creation of marketing materials.
Student Group Advising
Stroud Courier student newspaper
Publications & Presentations
BOOKS
Heart of Ohio (working title): Novel manuscript underway (2017-present): Currently working
on writing my second novel.
Night of the Animals (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016 hardcover; released in paper April
2017; Mandarin Chinese translation, March 2019): Release of a long, critically acclaimed
work of literary fiction on a major international publisher. Named one of 2016’s Best
Books by Slate. National publicity campaign – including newspaper, magazine, web,
and radio coverage. Received news coverage by the international media, including the
BBC, Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, and many other media organizations.
In The Valley of Swans (Revised and expanded, 2014). Manuscript of short story collection
under review and being shopped by my agent. Completed work during 2014 sabbatical.
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, STORIES
(FROM 2000 ONWARD ONLY)
(2018) Faith leaders rise up to condemn Trump immigration policies. Commentary/Essay.
Allentown Morning Call. June 23.
(2017) Why Confederate monuments should be removed from Gettysburg. Commentary/Essay.
Allentown Morning Call. August 20.
(2016) For my mother, Trump's win means 'Happy Days Are Here Again' Commentary/Essay.
Allentown Morning Call. November 12.
(2016) King of Night. Commentary/Essay. Creative non-fiction essay by invitation (noteworthy
national authors are selected for this essay series) for Powells.com. July 21.
(2016) His loss is a massive tragedy we cannot forget. Commentary/Essay. Allentown
Morning Call. March 20.
(2015) Segregated Comfort, on Paul Beatty’s The Sell-Out novel. Times Literary Supplement
(TLS). April 15 issue.
(2014) Where All the Magic Happens, on Porochista Khakpour’s The Last Illusion novel.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS). Dec 29 issue.
(2013) Wilson Borough Elementary is the little school that could. Commentary/Essay.
Allentown Morning Call. Oct 13.
(2010). Article on Michael Awkward’s Burying Don Imus. Journal of Mass Media Ethics
(JMME), spring 2010.
(2010). Crossing The Thin Red Line: Erythrophobia and the Color Psychology of Markups.
College English (in revision).
(2009). Who reads Paul Auster? on Paul Auster’s Invisible novel. Times Literary Supplement
(TLS). Nov 6 issue.
(2009). Heart Machine Time. Short story in Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About
Flying. Grove Press, Open City Books: New York, NY.
(2008). Romance Out Of Reach. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Feb 1 issue.
(2007). The All-American Short Story: article on Granta Book of American Short Stories.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Nov 7 issue.
(2007). Couplandism. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Oct 19 issue.
(2006). The Sociopath. A Book For Daniel Stern. Sheep Meadow Press: Riverdale On Hudson,
NY.
(2004, January 4). A Moveable Feast. The Washington Post Book World, T08.
(2004). A Hamlet from Calcutta. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5258, p20-2.
(2002). Signposts to Stillwater. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5153, p19.
(2001, November). New and Noteworthy. The Atlantic Monthly.
(2001, October). New and Noteworthy. The Atlantic Monthly.
(2001). Lives of working men. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5144, p22.
(2001). Down home folk. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5127, p22.
(2001). Exile from Streatham. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5119, p21.
(2001). In the Promised Land. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5107, p23.
(2001, November 11). Jargon buster. The Times [London].
(2001, November 4). Jargon buster. The Times [London].
(2001, April 30). For better or verse. The Times [London].
(2000). Why Are You Still Here? Kenyon Review, 23 (1).
(2000). Heart-Machine Time. Open City, 11.
(2000, October 29). The Flying Philosophers. The New York Times.
(2000). The pig on the poet. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5097, p24.
(2000). Bookish and bohemian. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5088, p25.
(2000). Living ghosts in miniature. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5074, p22.
(2000). Manna from heaven. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5067, p23.
(2000). Struggles near the shore. Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 5054, p21.
(2000). Ex-cons and holy joes, Times Literary Supplement (TLS) 5050, p26.
CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS & CREATIVE PERFORMANCES
2018. Guest Artist at Notations Writers Series at Lehigh University’s Zoellner Center.
March 3.
2017. Featured/Keynote Writer. Boldface Creative Writing Conference, University of
Houston. Craft lecture titled “Spiracles, Horn Plates, and Heaps of Brugo: Weird Nouns
as Fictive Portals.” Conducted numerous teaching conferences. May 22-26.
2016. A Panel Discussion on Libraries, Irish Culture, and Loss, with local authors
David Venditta and Juilene Osborne-McKnight. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Bethlehem,
PA. July 7.
2016. First Annual Provost’s Colloquium. “Night of the Animals: A Reading and Discussion.”
Stroud 113, Sept. 21.
2016. “In The Midst Of Future Calamity, A Different Kind Of Ark: The London Zoo.”
Interview on Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, with Scott Simon. Aug. 20.
2016. A Reading & Discussion of Night of the Animals. Moravian Book Shop, Bethlehem,
PA. July 7.
2016. A Reading of and Q&A on Night of the Animals. The Book Loft of German Village.
Columbus, OH. July 28.
2016. “In Conversation with Author Keith Banner.” A discussion of contemporary fiction
and Outsider Art culture at Thunder-Sky Gallery. Cincinnati, OH. July 31.
2016. A Reading of Night of the Animals. Mac’s Backs Books, Cleveland Heights, OH.
Aug. 3.
2016. A Reading of Night of the Animals. Learned Owl Bookshop, OH. Aug. 6.
2015 “Your Face In Mine: The New, Edgy Politics of Race in American Fiction.” Presentation
at ESU for One Book fall lecture series. Sept 30.
2015. “The Use (And Misuse) of Social Media!” presentation for Department of Human
Resource Management. University Senate Chambers. March 12.
2014. Reading my own fiction at “Creative Reading Night!: A Public Reading of Poetry,
Fiction, & Non-Fiction.” Lower Dansbury. March 27.
2014 “Six Avoidable Pitfalls for Those New To Online Teaching.” ESU Connecting conference.
Jan 15-16. East Stroudsburg University.
2014. “Men In The Movement.” Public presentation as part of annual Women’s History
Month celebrations. Stroud 113. March 13.
2011 “Moderation in All Things?: Anonymous Readers’ Comments and the Ethics of Editorial
Control.” Panel proposal approved for 2012 national Association of Educators in Journalism
and Mass Communication, Chicago. Recruited panelists. (Panel was approved but illness
prevented my attendance; panel proceeded with guest moderator.)
2010 Panel chair for topic, “Hiding In Plain Sight.” Improvisations and Word Play:
an Undergraduate Conference; College of Arts and Sciences, East Stroudsburg University,
April 9.
2009 “Multimedia Authoring For English Majors (And Other Non-Technical Types),” RECAP,
West Chester University. May 7.
2008 “Paperless Mark-ups: Using Tablet PC's In Writing Classes,” RECAP, West Chester
University. May 15.

- Name
- Sandra Eckard
- Title
- Professor of English
B.A., 1994, Frostburg State University
M.A., 1996, West Virginia University
Ph.D., 2001, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- seckard@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3426
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 C
Dr. Eckard directs the Writing Studio here at ESU, the hot-spot for writing tutoring on campus. In addition, teaches a variety of writing and literature courses and works with education majors. She presents at conferences regularly, and her latest book series, Comic Connections, is published by Rowman and Littlefield Education.
Research Interest
Teaching with Popular Culture, Comics and Comic Studies, Composition Pedagogy, Writing Center Administration, Literature and Film Studies
Student Group Advising
Anime Club Co-Advisor
Publications & Presentations
The Ties that Bind: Storytelling as a Teaching Technique in Writing Centers and Composition Classrooms
Yin and Yang in the English Classroom: Teaching with Popular Culture Texts
Comic Connections Series on Teaching:
Analyzing Hero and Identity
Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture
Building Character and Theme

- Name
- Jeffrey Hotz
- Title
- Professor of English
B.A., 1994, Georgetown University
M.A., 1997, Georgetown University
Ph.D., 2004, George Washington University
- jhotz@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3315
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 A
Jeffrey Hotz's main research area is early American literature. He recently finished a book on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s late career, the period from 1861 until the poet’s death in 1882.
Teaching Interest
American literature, Composition, Travel Writing
Research Interest
The literary careers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ted Kooser, and Kurt Vonnegut
Service
Student Success Network (University-wide Committee), 2018-present
Adult Learning Task Force (University-wide Committee), 2018-present
President of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), 2018-2019
Executive Council, the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), 2013-present)
Publications & Presentations
Recent Presentations:
“Hyper Consciousness and Soothing Sounds in Mary Lanier’s Edited Collection The Poems of Sidney Lanier. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD. 3/10/22-3/13/22.
“Mortal Verses in John Greenleaf Whittier’s At Sundown (1890, 1892): A Study of a Final Collection.” EAPSU Fall Conference: Regeneration & Renewal. Online Conference. East Stroudsburg, PA. 10/9/21.
“Anatomy of Violence: Cooper’s Vision of Normative Rules and Morality in the Leatherstocking Tales.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference. Online Conference. 3/10/21-3/14/21.
Publications:
Longfellow’s Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late Career. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022
“A Career Begins: Ted Kooser’s Official Entry Blank and an Emerging Voice.” MidAmerica XLIII (2016): 29-43.
“A New Home, Who’ll Follow?” Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume II, The Works. Ed. Philip A. Greasley. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2016: 595-598.
_Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces: The Early United States through the Lens of Travel_ (Routledge, 2006)

- Name
- Laura Kieselbach
- Title
- Associate Professor of English
B.A., 2000, Pennsylvania State University
M.Ed., 2010, University of Central Florida
Ed.D., Northeastern University
- lkieselbac@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3992
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 H
Dr. Laura Kieselbach joined the ESU English Department in the Fall of 2016. She instructs Teaching of English, Composition, Literary Analysis, Diversity Literature, and works closely with the Education College in advising student teachers in the field.
Prior to arriving at ESU, Dr. Kieselbach worked full time in the public school system advising new teachers as a lead mentor, writing curriculum to meet changing standards, leading workshops on collaborative learning and dynamic student-centered classroom strategies, and instructing English for middle and high school students. She also worked at Daytona State College instructing Composition and Critical Thinking courses. These experiences make her suited to understand evolving demographics and strategies that work in secondary education classrooms, reaching students of all backgrounds, and cultivating a cultural competence among her students, including student teachers who are honing their own pedagogical craft.
Teaching Interest
Education/Pedagogy
Diversity
Literature
Environment
Music
Composition
Social Justice
Research Interest
Dr. Kieselbach's thesis discussed ways to use multicultural literary texts in order to attain a more rigorous and intentional application of Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Practices in the English Language Arts Classroom. An advocate for equity and change, her Ed.D. is in Curriculum and Teacher and Learning Leadership and embedded in social justice advocacy for students of marginalization and minority populations and continues to research ways to make campuses, classrooms, and instruction more diverse and inclusive.
Service
Education Advisory Committee
Diversity and Inclusion
PSED Content Specialist Committee
Pocono Writing Project
Frederick Douglass Executive Committee
SPIRIT Committee
Human Resources Committee

- Name
- Cynthia Leenerts
- Title
- Associate Professor of English
B.A., 1987, George Mason University
M.A., 1990, George Mason University
Ph.D., 1997, George Washington University
- cleenerts@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3032
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 E
An Associate Professor of English, as well as a student of Chinese language and literatures, Cynthia Leenerts joined the faculty of ESU in 2005. She teaches postcolonial literature, British literature, and other world literatures, along with linguistics, literary criticism and theory, biblical and other religious literatures, and composition. Currently serving as President of the South Asian Literary Association, she is working with Hema Chari on a book project, At Home in the World: Rabindranath Tagore’s Travel Writing.
Teaching Interest
Postcolonial Literature
Literary Criticism & Theory
Major Authors: Rabindranath Tagore; Salman Rushdie
The Graphic Novel
Linguistics
British Literature II
World Literature
Lit. & Religion
Biblical Literature
Victorian Literature
17th-c. British Literature
Research Interest
Rabindranath Tagore's Travel Writings
Contemporary and Traditional Chinese Literatures
Contemporary and Traditional South Asian Literatures
Postcolonial Literature
Service
President, South Asian Literary Association
Editorial Board of South Asian Review
Editorial Board of Impost
Reviewer for Postcolonial Text
English Dept. Liaison to visiting professors from China
Department Curriculum Committee
Department Retention Committee
Department Executive Committee
Teaching English to visiting students from China in
ESU's Summer Sports Institute
Student Group Advising
Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta
Co-Advisor, Anime Club
Publications & Presentations
Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Co-edited with Lopamudra Basu.
Literature Without Borders: International Literature in English for Student Writers. Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Co-edited with George Bozzini.
In progress: At Home in the World: Rabindranath Tagore's Travel Writing. Collaborative with Hema Chari.
"Graphic Anamnesis: Redrawing the Home Country in Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do and GB Tran's Vietnamerica: A Family Journey. Critical Insights: The Immigrant Experience. Edited by Maryse Jayasuriya. Salem, 2018. pp. 49-69.
Other publications, and numerous presentations on South Asian and Chinese literatures
at South Asian Literary Association (SALA), College English Association (CEA), Pennsylvania
College English Association (PCEA), English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
(EAPSU), and other venues.

- Name
- Richard Madigan
- Title
- Associate Professor of English
B.A., 1974, University of Florida
M.F.A., 1990, Indiana University
- rmadigan@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3388
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 P
Professor Madigan teaches classes in expository writing, creative writing, contemporary literature and modern and contemporary American and Irish poetry.

- Name
- Jan Selving
- Title
- Associate Professor of English
B.A., 1990, Indiana University
M.F.A., 1994, Arizona State University
- jselving@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3071
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall F
Teaching areas: Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature, Professional Document Design

- Name
- Nancy VanArsdale
- Title
- Professor of English
B.A., 1979, Bucknell University
M.A., 1981, New York University
Ph.D., 1991, New York University
- npva@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3622
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 G
Nancy VanArsdale pursues research in American literature and professional writing
Teaching Interest
Professional Writing: Public Relations, Professional Writing: Advertising, American Literature, Women in Literature
Research Interest
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, William Carlos Williams, American Realism, American Modernism, Trends in Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism, and Social Media.
Service
President, ESU-APSCUF

- Name
- Holly Wells
- Title
- Associate Professor of English
B.A., 1988, Youngstown State University
M.A., 2001, Youngstown State University
Ph.D., 2012, Kent State University
- hwells1@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3382
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 O
Dr. Wells works on projects related to rhetoric of science (broadly conceived), rhetoric of the New Testament, visual rhetoric (in general), marketing communications, and technical writing.
Teaching Interest
Wells teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in professional writing, business writing, research methods, visual rhetoric, and document design.
Research Interest
Research interests include New Testament rhetoric and visual rhetoric and culture.
Service
Wells served as coordinator of the Graduate Program in Professional and Digital Media Writing from 2013 to 2019. She also serves on various department, University, and APSCUF committees.
Student Group Advising
Wells is past co-advisor of NBS.
Presentations & Publications
Publications include two book chapters and two co-authored journal articles.

- Name
- Jasmine Villa
- Title
- Assistant Professor of English
B.A., 2011, University of Texas at El Paso
M.A., 2014, University of Texas at El Paso
Ph.D., 2018, University of Texas at El Paso
- jvilla@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3922
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309 I
Dr. Villa earned her MA in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso. Prior to arriving at ESU, Dr. Villa was the Assistant Director of the First-Year Composition Program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) from 2016 – 2018, taught undergraduate courses in composition and technical writing, and co-taught graduate level courses in grant writing and community literacy.
Her research predominantly focuses on professional writing trends related to community writing, social media, public and cultural rhetoric's, and composition pedagogy.
Her work has been published in Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric and the Literacy in Composition Studies Journal. She has presented her work at several conferences including the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Conference on Community Writing, Cultural Rhetoric's, and Computers and Writing Conference.

- Name
- Artress Bethany White
- Title
- Associate Professor of English
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., 2009, University of Kentucky
- awhite43@esu.edu
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 311 B
Dr. White joined the East Stroudsburg University Department of English in fall 2020 after completing a National Endowment of the Humanities visiting professorship at Albright College. She is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. Her teaching, research, and writing interests include African American literature, contemporary poetry and poetics, BIPOC social justice literacy, and the memoir essay.
Contact Us
Contact Information
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 309
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3398
- Fax:
- (570) 422-3012 (Fax)
- Title of Department Leader
- Department Chair
- Name
- Leigh Smith
- E:
- lsmith@esu.edu
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3385